Journal pudge_confirmer's Journal: home schooling 4
Home schooling. I see no need for regulation; we can trust those home schoolers. I confirm they know what is best for their children.
Yuck.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8229168.stm
Home schooling. I see no need for regulation; we can trust those home schoolers. I confirm they know what is best for their children.
Yuck.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8229168.stm
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.
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Home schooling is regulated (in the U.S.). Though neither home nor private nor public schooling ensures that abuse will never happen. In the public and private system there are just more bad people to be exposed to. If you're born (and raised) with bad parents or guardians you're fucked no matter where you're schooled.
Unless you're born into the middle and upper classes schooling is quite useless to begin with, because what you know never did matter all that much. And if you think of school as just a means
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I think I understand where you are coming from, though your 3rd and 4th sentences confuse me.
I think public school has a large socializing and "normalizing" effect. Sure, a lot of people have to excel past its limitations, but I think its downside is far less than home schooling... unless the homeschooler shows the kids are doing better than would be expected in public school. Easy? No. Reasonable? Yes.
I think the school structure is the main ticket out of the "lower" classes (contrasted to your middle
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I think public school has a large socializing and "normalizing" effect.
That's one of the things I find negative about the public school system. "Socializing" (in general) has more negatives than positives (that's a whole other tangent that I don't want to get into). And "normal" isn't something that I've ever found to be positive either. Most "normal" people lie within the first ten minutes of a conversation (for example), and they rationalize their immorality by stating (or implying) that lying is a normal part of socializing. Again, the less exposure children have to "normal
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. Too much there to get into now. We look at things quite differently, but that's ok with me, I think I see where you are coming from. It's not me.